Everyone’s camera,
on the same clock.

three ways to be together

1. 01

   Grid

   Everyone’s FaceTime camera, in one synced grid. Or pick one person and watch just them.

   1. The host starts a group and invites people by number. Each person gets a FaceTime call from the together line and answers it.
   2. Every camera lands in one room on our side, on one clock. The grid you see is built from all of them at once.
   3. Anyone watching can switch from the grid to a single camera, and back.

   On FaceTime you see the grid as the other side of your call. You can’t tap a tile in FaceTime itself; that picker is on the web.

   see the viewer →

2. 02

   Broadcast

   Your group’s call, streamed out to people in a browser. A few of them can come up on camera.

   1. The group is on FaceTime as above. The host flips it to broadcast after everyone on camera says yes.
   2. Viewers open a link and watch the grid a few seconds behind live. No account to watch.
   3. The host can invite a handful of viewers up. They join from the browser with camera and mic, in real time.

   Watching is a few seconds behind; being on camera is live. Bringing someone on stage is a host decision, never automatic.

   see the viewer →

3. 03

   Watch party

   Everyone watches the same video at the same moment, with each other’s cameras alongside.

   1. The host picks something they have the right to show, or a video from a provider’s own embeddable player.
   2. In a browser it plays on your screen, kept in step with everyone else. Pause pauses for all.
   3. On FaceTime the video is drawn into what your call shows you, next to the other cameras.

   FaceTime can’t play a video inside a call. FaceTime folks see it as part of the call picture: lower quality, a beat behind, and only for content we’re allowed to re-encode.

   see the party →